the royal marines

HM ROYAL MARINES

ROLES - AMPHIBIOUS INFANTRY & BIG SHIP GUNNERY

POST WW1 FINANCIAL RESTRAINTS, NAVAL TREATIES & TEN YEAR RULE

1923 RECONFIGURATION – MADDEN REPORT- MULTI-ROLE

ADMIRALTY FOCUS ON GUNNERY

AMPHIBIOUS ROLE – MADDEN RESURRECTED – RM COMMANDOS 1942

SHIPPING – THE VITAL FACTOR

AVAILABILITY OF SHIPPING THE DETERMINING FACTOR OF ALLIED STRATEGY

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC THE DETERMINING CAMPAIGN IN THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY

U BOAT THREAT GAVE CHURCHILL HIS ‘DARKEST HOURS’

FOOD, RAW MATERIALS, ARMAMENTS & SERVICEMEN & WOMEN

KEEPING USSR IN THE WAR

PACIFIC CAMPAIGN – US NAVAL SUPREMACY

HMS CARLISLE

MEDITERRANEAN 1941- 42 MALTA, CRETE , MATAPAN, SIRTE, TORCH

HMS JAMAICA

ARCTIC CONVOYS, SCHARNHORST

HMS GLORY

CAPTAIN GOSLING RM & GLORY’S BUGLES & DRUMS

JAPANESE SURRENDER IN SW PACIFIC ON BOARD HMS GLORY

JAPANESE SURRENDER DOCUMENT 6 SEPTEMBER 1945

ROYAL MARINES OF HMS GLORY VICTORY PARADE ST. JAMES PARK SYDNEY

SGT MAJOR NOBBY ELLIOTT

24 YEARS 2 MONTHS BOY & MAN SERVICE

12 YEARS 8 MONTHS AFLOAT

5 YEARS AT SEA ON ACTIVE SERVICE WW2, ALL THEATRES OF WAR

CHURCHILL (ORIGINALLY REFERRING TO THE ARMY)– ‘ONE SET OF MEN ARE SENT BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN TO THE FRONT, WHILE THE GREAT MAJORITY ARE KEPT OUT OF ALL FIGHTING TO THEIR REGRET.’